The Salt Lick BBQ

The Salt Lick started in 1967 and has built its reputation on Texas Hill Country barbecue done the deliberate way — meat seared then finished low and slow over coals, no shortcuts. This Round Rock outpost on East Palm Valley Boulevard carries that same approach.

Open daily from 11 to 9, it's the kind of place that doesn't need to announce itself. You come for the barbecue, you get the barbecue, and the rest takes care of itself.